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Decade of ITQ Management in Icelandic Fisheries: Consolidation Without Consensus
Eythorsson, Einar - 2000
companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …
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Theory and Practice of ITQ's in Iceland; Privatisation of Common Fisheries Resources
Eythorsson, Einar - 1995
, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
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A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves
Gerber, L. R.; Beger, M.; McCarthy, M. A.; Possingham, H. P. - 2005
Monitoring of marine reserves has traditionally focused on the task of rejecting the null hypothesis that marine reserves have no impact on the population and community structure of harvested populations. We consider the role of monitoring of marine reserves to gain information needed for...
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How Germans use their time
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die zur empirischen Literatur der Allokation der Arbeitszeit beitragen. Der erste Artikel untersucht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Arbeit und Sozialleben von Paaren und untersucht die Synchronisation der Arbeitszeiten. Ein neuer Analyseansatz wird...
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Some child cost estimates for South Africa
Sienaert, Alexis - 2008
The heterogeneous demographic composition of South African households means that the way that household income or expenditure is converted into an individual-level welfare measure is likely to matter. This paper examines the monetary and time costs of the most common economic dependents in...
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The new discrimination and child care
Apps, Patricia - 2007
Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, theUK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare programs,or expanded existing programs, that have the effect of raising taxrates on the income of the second earner in the family. Examplesinclude the earned income tax credit...
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Five essays on early education and workplace training
Mühler, Grit - 2010
With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
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Staatliche Förderung von Lebensversicherungen als Säule der privaten Altersversorgung. Ein Vergleich der Entwicklungen in Großbritannien und in Deutschland mit Blick auf die gesetz...
Rüttler, Axel Thomas - 2003
Die vorliegende Dissertation fokussiert auf die staatliche Förderung (insbesondere durch steuerliche Maßnahmen) von kapitalbildenden Lebensversicherungen, die im Rahmen der privaten Altersversorgung genutzt werden können. Die Arbeit vergleicht die Entwicklungen in Großbritannien und in...
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Human Resource Management 'Best Practices' in Europa. Eine empirische Untersuchung.
Saga, Daniel Thomas - 2009
In der wissenschaftlichen Literatur des Human Resource Managements wird viel über normative Empfehlungen bzw. Best Practices für die Organisationspraxis diskutiert. Dabei sind nicht nur die Empfehlungen an sich und deren Erfolgsbeiträge, sondern auch deren Universalität nie ganz...
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